The 2022 Chess Olympiad, scheduled for July 26-August 9, won't take place in Russia. This was announced by FIDE following Russia's invasion into Ukraine.
This year's Olympiad was supposed to take place in Moscow, alongside the competition for players with disabilities and the FIDE Congress. "We will do our utmost to find another organizer for the Olympiad and, in due time, provide information on the location and dates of FIDE Congress 2022," FIDE writes in a statement on Friday.
The FIDE Council has also made a decision about sponsorship:
"In order to safeguard FIDE from reputational, financial, and any other possible risks, FIDE terminates all existing sponsorship agreements with any Belarusian and Russian sanctioned and/or state-controlled companies and will not enter into new sponsorship agreements with any such companies."
This would suggest the discontinuation of working together with companies such as the gas supplier Gazprom, the fertilizer giant PhosAgro, and the mining firm Nornickel.
That will show the Russian military we mean business 🙄 (sarcasm)
Not having an event in Russia is understandable considering they are at war but...
I keep seeing people say on social media we should boycott all Russian athletes and any other famous Russian people.
They are not the ones out there killing people.
That is the Russian military.
@contenchess saidThat will show the Russian military we mean business 🙄 (sarcasm)
That will show the Russian military we mean business 🙄 (sarcasm)
Not having an event in Russia is understandable considering they are at war but...
I keep seeing people say we should boycott all Russian athletes and any other famous Russian people.
They are not the ones out there killing people.
That is the Russian military.
This is simply a point of information, since RHP is a chess site I thought it would be appropriate to post it here.
@mchill saidI agree with what FIDE is doing but I'm seeing a lot of people going farther and trying to point the finger at Russian athletes and people in the famous world.
That will show the Russian military we mean business 🙄 (sarcasm)
This is simply a point of information, since RHP is a chess site I thought it would be appropriate to post it here.
Those people have nothing to do with the war and they shouldn't be ostracized.
@contenchess saidSanctions tend to harm the wrong people. It's not the military's fault either; they do the bidding of their political masters, in this case Putin himself. Unfortunately, it is hard to craft a sanction which hits Putin in such a vulnerable spot that he is likely to relent.
That will show the Russian military we mean business 🙄 (sarcasm)
Not having an event in Russia is understandable considering they are at war but...
I keep seeing people say on social media we should boycott all Russian athletes and any other famous Russian people.
They are not the ones out there killing people.
That is the Russian military.